How To Use Grouchy In A Sentence
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Most of the books were in remote storage, so you couldn't brouse thru and find all the authors writing on your research topic, you either had to know exactly what you needed or make wild-ass guesses out of the card catalog - then wait a day for them to be dug out for you by grouchy librarians frustrated with having no shelving.
The excuse of architecture
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At this point I kick my grouchy husband out of his own bed to sleep on the couch where he can get some uninterrupted shuteye.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers
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I had a headache and was incredibly grouchy.
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More often, the underground traffic jam gnarls, and her overcrowded car will be filled with grouchy commuters, sardined shoulder-to-shoulder, sweaty and cramped, for almost an hour.
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I am appalling in the morning, really foul-tempered and grouchy.
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First Impression: Oscar is described as grouchy, likely thanks to Oscar the Grouch of Sesame Street fame.
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Its grouchy tone also belies the appeal of its author.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Its grouchy tone also belies the appeal of its author.
The Times Literary Supplement
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I can so understand that, and I wouldn't want to spoil any of the fun of that by participating in a grouchy thread, but I don't really think anyone's grouching.
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If there is anyone who seems to embody the Renaissance completely and totally, it is this grouchy5) and self-centered painter, scholar, inventor, scientist, writer, anatomist, etc.
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SIMON: A little girl with frizzy hair and glasses sitting at her desk, I was glumpy, I was grouchy, I was slouching in my chair.
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Take one disco drumbeat, add a bouncy bassline, throw in a grouchy guitar noise and a cheeky mockney songsmith, and hey presto!
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Isn't there another grouchy, unproductive and anonymous, online malcontent - one who shares your discomfort for "turgid" things - for for you to play with, say losergrrl, for instance?
"This man is a clear-eyed pragmatist who will get the job done" — says Biden of Obama.
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He was such an appallingly grouchy individual that the university never did give him a professorship.
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In the television ad ... the apple character is named Bad Apple and is described as grouchy and sour and depicted as meddling and scheming," they wrote.
Adland
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Noted by the French ambassador in the United States for their moderate behavior and sincere expressions of repentance, all the Grouchys were amnestied in 1819 and returned to France the following year.
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He's grouchy, mean-spirited, and crude, but, of course, hiding a heart of gold just waiting to be melted by the wonderful ladies on his team.
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Maria in the morning was an entirely different entity from Maria the rest of the day, and twice as grouchy and irritable.
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Cummer is grouchy, those who say how are done below this ah!
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Not to mention any number of grouchy patriarchal husbands and avid sugar daddies.
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If I sometimes seem grouchy or disoriented, remember that like Walt Whitman I contain multitudes.
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Arts diary: Decline and Fall Grouchy rock star scraps with burghers What with being beaten up by his own band - after he attacked them on stage in New York - you'd think a period of purdah might be in order for The Fall's Mark E. Smith, the gobbiest man in rock.
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She managed to look grumpy and grouchy for a whole 10 seconds, then her smile appeared again and she stared up at the ceiling.
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Thus confined to bed and therefore incredibly grumpy and grouchy, she made life difficult for anyone visiting her.
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Sometimes his signature smile was gone and he seemed irritated or grouchy.
Christianity Today
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But instead, there were snubs and grouchy charges of poisoning relationships.
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(Bert, too, is described as grouchy; none of the characters, in fact, is especially sunshiney except maybe Ernie, who also seems slow.) "We might not be able to create a character like Oscar now," she said.
From the WSJ Opinion Archives
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An evangelical agnostic, Linton tends to be amusingly (or at least assertively) grouchy (although her antifeminism can make modern readers similarly grouchy...)
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Carli, unlucky at love but still hopeful, works at a deli alongside curmudgeonly Ed Asner, who serves up grouchy asides "You want a spark, chew on a lamp cord" with all the energy of a narcotized bulldog.
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They had come in last Monday, and he was slightly grouchy.
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The reason people are grouchy is because they are starting to wake up and realize that the FEEL-GOOD-DON'T-SWEAT-THE-DETAILS ELECTION OF 2008 is having some pretty costly consequences.
'People have a right to be grouchy,' Axelrod says
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The McIlhennys bump along the well-trodden tourist path, she captious, he grouchy.
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Your grandmother has nothing to stop her from being bored, grouchy and lonely.
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The only way that people have a "right" to be grouchy is if they are "ACTIVELY" engaged in doing something about the problems.
'People have a right to be grouchy,' Axelrod says
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If your answer is no and you wake up feeling grumpy and grouchy instead, then you may want to reconsider napping.
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Papa has always been a crotchety, grouchy, grumpy yet extremely lovable old coot.
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I didnt acctually cook on my own till I was about 12 years old, I am the oldest of 4 kids and my youngest sister was hungry one day and the only thing I could figure out how to cook was a grilled chease sandwich... at that time she called a grouchy sandwich she was 6
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Thus McCarthy occasionally came across as gruff or grouchy in this World Cup and some reporters took delight in this.
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After years of cruel deprivation they seemed to be very contented in a grouchy, ursine, way.
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Today is my first day back at work after a fortnight's holiday and I'm feeling grouchy.
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Awl harpmony nao .. ai bet wun getz grouchy wen tehy fite !
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Ed O Neil is the grouchy dad, Sofia Vergara is the feisty mom, Ty Burrell is the goofy dad.
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Of all the women, the most interesting is the chronically grouchy Cristina, "an aggressive little witch," as one patient calls her.
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If you are grouchy, irritable, or just plain mean, there will be a £100 charge for putting up with you.
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It came across as something of a head scratcher, like a grouchy surfer getting territorial over an epic swell.
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He was born at Grouchy, near Gréville, Normandy, of peasant stock, and spent his early years as a farmworker alongside his father.
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Well, I appear to have recovered from my grouchy spell this week.
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I thought you were grouchy and cranky, but I had no idea what two teeth could do to a human being, and the world will never be the same.
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I was so tired and grouchy I just couldn't be bothered.
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Meanwhile, aids-de-camp galloped along the lines, announcing the arrival of Grouchy, to reanimate the drooping spirits of the men; for, at last, a doubt of victory was breaking upon the minds of those who never before, in the most adverse hour of fortune, deemed _his_ star could set that led them on to glory.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
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If I could sum up our problems in a sentence, I would have to say that he was kind of a Bad Boy: brooding, depressed, grouchy, inattentive, unaffectionate.
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Because Papa grew so grouchy and irascible as his health failed, I wondered at times how many people really liked him.
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I don't want to disturb him too much and being grouchy doesn't make me feel very cuddly anyhow, so I head out quickly and hope that the walk to work will clear my head a bit.
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Halpern Sr had always had a gift for the grouchy apophthegm.
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So we bought our minivan, and we've both been grouchy about it.
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I know I sound really grouchy and maybe I am but when I heard everybody complaining I got annoyed.
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Because Papa grew so grouchy and irascible as his health failed, I wondered at times how many people really liked him.
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As a Democrat, the only reason I'm grouchy is because I'm sick and tired of the endless negativity and criticism by the right, on every nit-picking thing they can come up with.
'People have a right to be grouchy,' Axelrod says
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Their discovery made them grouchy; they tried to clear us away.
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I wrote the above a few days ago, and now I'm not grouchy at all.
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A noble by birth, the young Grouchy was schooled in the pre-Revolution royalist cavalry, rising to a lieutenancy in the élite Compagnie Écossaise of the king's Garde du Corps.
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I'm a grouchy teenager afraid to get my band t-shirt crusted with flour.
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He's cheap, grouchy and stuck with the name Ebenezer, but that doesn't stop him from making us laugh with his wicked old ways or, eventually, breaking our hearts with his sad childhood and lonely old life.
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In his world of small-time hustlers, grouchy thugs and laconic crimefighters, there's always somebody with a new angle to work or a new beef to settle.
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Sometimes his signature smile was gone and he seemed irritated or grouchy.
Christianity Today
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He was long known as a grouchy shoe-maker, but was sanitized in the 1950s by advertisers and Walt Disney.
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He was grouchy at me for being late, but then warmed up.
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She was cranky and grouchy most of the time and her feet hurt but she had work to do.
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– and "grouchy" is a gross understatement for the suffering that so many American citizens are now subjected to because of it.
'People have a right to be grouchy,' Axelrod says
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I think I look fine even though I am over weight, have nappy hair, and seem a bit grouchy, as you would if you were a freak having to put up with normal people.
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Most religions and some of the more grouchy philosophers teach that suffering ennobles us - it makes us better people.
